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  The Media Foundation's B G Verghese Memorial Lecture, delivered on March 17, 2016, by Jairam Ramesh, former Union Minister for Environment and Forests...
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    The BG Verghese memorial lecture by Gopal Gandhi, March 19, 2015 at the Indian International Centre, New Delhi.     A panel discussion on Shrinking space for Dissent, March 19, 2015.   Panelists: Siddharth Varadarajan, Shubha Mudgal, Ashok Malik, Nilanjana Roy.     ..
BY MEDIA FOUNDATION| IN VIDEOS |24/07/2015
The DTH revolution is sweeping India's villages and the public broadcaster Doordarshan is losing its rural audience to commercial DTH players.
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The new term for self censorship is voluntary censorship, as proposed by companies like Netflix and Hotstar. ET reports that streaming video service Amazon Prime is opposing a move by its peers to adopt a voluntary censorship code in anticipation of the Indian government coming up with its own rules. Amazon is resisting because it fears that it may alienate paying subscribers.                   

Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP.                 

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